Download or read book Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present written by Jon Lawrence and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state.